Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because of the earlier bitterness of the battle over comprehensive reorganization , more because in the new artificially contrived areas ( such as ‘ Humberside ’ , ‘ Avon ’ , ‘ Kirklees ’ , and ‘ Thamesdown ’ ) there was no tradition and no sense of local needs , political alignments became overwhelmingly important . |
| 2 | At the heart of the battle over Sunday trading is the simple straightforward issue of profit and loss . ’ |
| 3 | She plucked a great hank of silk thread from the girdle of her spinsterhood ; tied one end of it to the wedding ring of her virginity and , looping the two ends of the hank over either wrist , spread her hands and invited Maggie to take the other end and wind a neat ball . |
| 4 | Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier . |
| 5 | A contest was almost inevitable , regardless of the conflict over Palestine . |
| 6 | Much of the conflict over the nature of authority since Vatican II derives from the manner in which it was exercised by Rome in the first half of the twentieth century , and particularly during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 7 | The European Commission continued during this period to pursue a resolution of the conflict over technical standards for high definition television ( HDTV ) broadcasting in the single market after 1993 . |
| 8 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 9 | Expecting this , he had first tried to flee the city , and in the aftermath of John 's flight the Council passed a decree ( Sacrosancta ) proclaiming the supremacy of the Council over the pope . |
| 10 | I write to confirm that the Economic Development Committee at their meeting on 5 November approved your application for a loan of £300,000 under the above scheme , on condition that the existing loan is repaid in full , and subject to a first charge in favour of the Council over the whole of your existing and proposed premises at Penicuik . |
| 11 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 12 | If you are in the south of the country over the weekend of the 23–25 May , then pop along to the English Riviera Centre in Torquay . |
| 13 | clearly intended to create a public distinction between good and bad trade union behaviour , in advance of the bargaining over post-war reconstruction … |
| 14 | It shows remarkable warming and cooling of the sea over a period of just 10 days . |
| 15 | Place your protractor over the outline shown with the centre of the protractor over Belize and the base line over the North-South line . |
| 16 | As evidence for this assertion she will point to the fact that the rise of the novel ( the literary genre of ‘ character ’ par excellence ) in the eighteenth century coincided with the rise of capitalism ; that the triumph of the novel over all other literary genres in the nineteenth century coincided with the triumph of capitalism ; and that the modernist and postmodernist deconstruction of the classic novel in the twentieth century has coincided with the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 17 | Liberal theories , it is suggested , start with the assumption of the priority of the individual over society and in particular the assertion of the primacy of individual rights . |
| 18 | This novel , with its chaotic narrative order and its prominent self-conscious authorial commentary , is an ideal example for the Formalists of the privileging of the syuzhet over the fabula . |
| 19 | The Hercules came in dangerously low for a drop , just below five hundred feet , on Delaney 's orders , to ensure the minimum dispersion of the stick over the DZ . |
| 20 | The image Mr Lawson presented holed up in his home behind a securely locked gate was unfortunate , in view of the speculation over his political future . |
| 21 | If Charlemagne strove to achieve the regeneration and salvation of the society over which he ruled , this could only be done in association with the clergy . |
| 22 | Mr Court was a principal architect of this Society as it is today and I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to the very considerable part he has played in the development of the Society over the past 16 years . |
| 23 | Several minutes rock still and the sentries no doubt mistook him for a part of the shore over which the seas were gently breaking . |
| 24 | Finally , so as to limit the range of the compensation over the useful audible range to about 40dB , the system reverts to constant velocity for the lowest frequencies , with a benefit as regards possible ‘ rumble ’ as a bonus . |
| 25 | It is frightening , a triumph of the will over material circumstances . |
| 26 | SOME of the gloom over the holiday trade lifted yesterday with the devaluation of the Italian lira and Spanish peseta . |
| 27 | Accumulation of observations would allow one to specify statistical properties of the motion , such as the average kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum over a large number of periods ( cf. the statistical specification of turbulent motion , Section 19.2 ) . |
| 28 | This astonishing success , considering the size of his forces and the difficulty of much of the terrain over which he fought , only succeeded in outraging Alfonso , who seems to have believed — or been persuaded to believe — that El Cid intended to set up a rival kingdom in Valencia . |
| 29 | The drag of the cable over one wing can make the aircraft uncontrollable in a turn , making a serious crash almost inevitable . |
| 30 | Only the defeat of Britain — now widely presumed to be a matter of course — stood in the way , it seemed , of that final victory , and the intoxication of the triumph over the French mingled with a widespread desire , whipped up by almost hysterical anti-British hate propaganda , for the total destruction of Britain . |